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    the town Marseilles in reference to the French city of Marseille as he hoped it would become a similar industrial center in Illinois. Marseilles, pronounced...
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  • refer to: Marseille-en-Beauvaisis, in the Oise department Marseilles-lès-Aubigny, in the Cher department Marseilles, Free State Marseilles, Illinois, United...
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    Rock Island and Pacific Depot (Marseilles, Illinois). The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Depot in Marseilles, Illinois is a historic train station built...
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  • The Marseilles Bridge is a bridge in Marseilles, Illinois. The bridge was completed in December 1997. "Marseilles Bridge, Marseilles, IL". www.johnweeks...
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  • Mary Morello (category Schoolteachers from Illinois)
    group Parents for Rock and Rap in 1987. Morello was born in 1923 in Marseilles, Illinois. In 1954, she earned a master's degree in African and Latin American/Peru...
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  • The Middle East Conflicts Wall Memorial is a monument in Marseilles, Illinois, which commemorates the U.S. servicemen and women in who died during all...
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    The Marseilles Hydro Plant, also known as the Marseilles Hydro Development or the Marseilles Hydro Power Station, is a historic hydroelectric power station...
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    The Marseilles Lock and Dam, also known as Lock and Dam 5, is a lock and dam complex on the Illinois River at Marseilles, Illinois. The complex includes...
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  • Revra DePuy (category People from Marseilles, Illinois)
    child. After his father died, Revra's mother moved the family to Marseilles, Illinois. As a young man, DePuy supported himself by doing many kinds of work...
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    Richard Ten Eyck (category People from Marseilles, Illinois)
    Ten Eyck was born in Marseilles, Illinois, in 1920 and from 1938 to 1939 he studied industrial design at the University of Illinois. He later worked on...
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    Tom Morello (category Activists from Illinois)
    and a Kenyan Kikuyu father. His mother was a schoolteacher from Marseilles, Illinois, who earned a Master of Arts at Loyola University, Chicago and traveled...
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    Holger Toftoy (category People from Marseilles, Illinois)
    issues, and moved to Florida. Toftoy was born on 31 October 1902, in Marseilles, Illinois. He attended local schools before college. He studied at the University...
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    Division and Marine Forces Reserve. The battalion has broken ground in Marseilles, Illinois for a new Reserve Training Center which will be ready by 2010. Between...
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    Adam Kinzinger (category Activists from Illinois)
    States representative from Illinois from 2011 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party, Kinzinger originally represented Illinois's 11th congressional district...
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    Dwight M. Sabin (category People from Marseilles, Illinois)
    Elizabeth Webster (originally of Fredonia, NY), was born in 1843, in Marseilles, Illinois, where he spent his childhood years. Horace, Dwight's father, of...
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  • WLWF (category Radio stations in Illinois)
    a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Marseilles, Illinois, United States, the station serves the LaSalle-Peru market in the...
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    William H. Stead (category People from Marseilles, Illinois)
    politician and lawyer. William H. Stead was born on a farm near Marseilles, Illinois on June 12, 1858. He went to Central Normal College, in Ladoga, Indiana...
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    The Illinois River (Miami-Illinois: Inoka Siipiiwi) is a principal tributary of the Mississippi River at approximately 273 miles (439 km) in length. Located...
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  • Green Valley, Illinois – $17,830 Aroma Park, Illinois – $17,806 Belvidere, Illinois – $17,804 Marseilles, Illinois – $17,793 Hopedale, Illinois – $17,784...
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    The Marseilles moraine was preceded by the Bloomington morainic system. The name is taken from the village of Marseilles, located where the Illinois River...
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  • Alvah R. Munger (category People from Marseilles, Illinois)
    November 26, 1928) was an American farmer and politician. Born in Marseilles, Illinois, Munger moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin Territory in 1846 and then...
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  • Florida, United States WLWF, a radio station (96.5 FM) licensed to Marseilles, Illinois, United States, which held the call sign WKOT from 1990 to 2010 WOKT...
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    Darryn is also honored on the Middle East Conflicts Wall Memorial in Marseilles, Illinois, Panel 5-C, Row 9. Darryn was born in Ogden, Utah and grew up in...
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  • Callary, Edward (October 2009). Place Names of Illinois. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-03356-8. Vasiliev, Ren (2004)...
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    LaSalle County Nuclear Generating Station (category Buildings and structures in LaSalle County, Illinois)
    Township, LaSalle County, Illinois, near Marseilles, 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Ottawa, serves Chicago and Northern Illinois with electricity. The plant...
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  • 185 in 2003 Marseilles Community Unit School District 155 — annexed and converted into Ottawa Township High School District 140 and Marseilles Elementary...
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  • Mazon Creek fossil beds (category Geography of Grundy County, Illinois)
    Additional fossils are found in LaSalle County, Illinois; between the Vermilion River and Marseilles, Illinois. The ironstone concretions are recovered from...
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    an American writer from Hastings, Nebraska. Renfrew was born in Marseilles, Illinois, about 1858 to Silvester and Mercy Clark Renfrew, and moved to Nebraska...
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    Marseilles is a village in Wyandot County, Ohio, United States, located at the western edge of the Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area. The population was 93...
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    Tropical Storm Alberto (2018) (category Hurricanes in Illinois)
    tornadoes, one near Marseilles, Illinois, the other near Pleasant Hill, Ohio. The latter tornado damaged an outbuilding. In Illinois, heavy rainfall from...
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